Fifth grade artists used different textured materials to create a collagraph printing plate and then practiced the printmaking process to create collagraph prints! They sketched a design for their collapraph plate, then cut and glued different materials on top of their sketch. Some artists created abstract designs while others created landscapes, faces, or other objects. …
This year we have 33 artists from Geer Park who have work featured in Dearborn’s Gallery Rally! Their artwork will be located in the City Hall ArtSpace connector building on April 6th and will be open from 10-5. There will also be 9 other galleries around Dearborn featuring artist work, and if you go and …
Fifth grade artists have been learning about hand building with clay! They learned about creating with coils, slabs, and how to slip and score. They each created a sculpture that used all three of these methods. Some students chose to create a functional piece and others chose to create a more decorative sculpture. They …
Fifth grade artists created a series of mini abstract paintings that they turned into an accordion book and added their own free verse poem to. We talked about different styles of abstract art and each artist got to choose what materials and processes they used to apply their paint and designs. Then they looked at …
While learning about value, fifth grade artists looked at the different values in black and white animal photos and tried to recreate the values they saw. They had to look carefully to try and match as many values as they could in the photo with charcoal. Doing this helped to make their drawings look more …
Fifth grade artists completed a few value exercises and arranged some of them together to make a composition. Value is the lightness or darkness of a color, and adding it to your artwork can create the illusion of 3D space and forms. Each artist created a colored value scale by mixing white with their hue …
Fifth grade artists have been working with cardboard to build low-relief sculptures! They were focusing on BALANCE and tried to balance their artwork using abstract designs. They could choose to show balance in a way that is symmetrical or asymmetrical. Color and pattern can also be used to help create balance so each artist painted …
Fifth grade artists have been creating self portraits in the art room! We learned how a self-portrait is an artwork that you make to show yourself to the world; you could either show what you look like or another quality about yourself like how you feel, your interests, your experiences, etc. Each artist showed a …
Welcome back to another wonderful school year! On the first day of art class this year, each class read the book “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds. Then they each created a monochromatic dot with the designs of their choice. We added all of our dots to the tree on the bulletin board outside of …
Fifth grade students created paper mache animals for their last art project of the school year! They sketched the animal they wanted to make, created a form out of recycled materials, applied strips of paper and paper mache over their form, and then painted their animal when it was dry!